What is Turner's syndrome

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Turner's syndrome is a congenital ovarian hypoplasia, which belongs to chromosomal abnormalities, so today we will introduce some aspects of Turner's syndrome.

What is Turner's syndrome

First, typical Turner's syndrome is characterized by height, weight backwardness, obvious swelling of hands and dorsum of feet, and flabby skin on the side of neck at birth. The growth of height is slow after birth. The height of adult is about 135-140cm. Often because of growth retardation, adolescent asexual development, primary amenorrhea attract attention.

Second: for the treatment methods, the growth hormone produced by genetic engineering technology is mostly used at present. The use of growth hormone started when the height was below the 5th percentile of the growth curve, and continued until the skeletal age was 14 years old and the growth rate was less than 2.5 cm per year.

Third: Here we need to pay attention to any treatment, can not promote ovarian development, can not make patients restore reproductive function. The purpose of treatment is to promote height and stimulate the development of breast and reproductive organs.

matters needing attention

As mentioned above, Turner's syndrome must be treated as soon as possible. Therefore, it is suggested that parents should find out and treat Turner's syndrome as soon as possible.